Visual Storytelling
Storytelling
Created storyboards and learned techniques to make a simple animatic.
Skills:
+ Storytelling
+ Story Board
+ Hand Sketching
Design Process
Teamwork
Understand the Product
Final Video
Sketch & Coloring
Understand the Product
Our team chose sleep number's SleepIQ Kids as our hero in the short video. It is a smart bed which equipped with a underbed lighting that automatically turns on when kids get up during the night, and it also lets parents to turn the lights off remotely. An interesting feature is that sleep number designs a "monster detector," which is an app that the parents can play with their kids during bedtime routine. Other features includes sleep quality tracking system and head-tilt function.
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Teamwork
1. Storyboards by Each Team Member
Individually, every team member drew their own story on half-sheet.
2. Group Discussion
All the team members gathered together to discuss every storyboards. We criticized, chose the best scenes, and combined the three storyboards into a final one.
3. Role Selection: the "Drawer"
There are 4 main roles: "Drawer," "Script Writer," "Music Director," "Animator." My role was the drawer, who was responsible for generating every single drawing, coloring them and help to import some of the drawings as layers in Adobe Photoshop to facilitate the animator.
4. Group Critique
Our team worked individually and linearly most of the time instead of parallel because it is more efficient. The whole team gathered together every so often to make sure the consistency of the whole story.
Sketch & Coloring
Sketch took lots of time. I used the same elements multiple times in different scenes to reduce sketching time.
Final Video
Visual Storytelling